Mercy College: Faculty & Salaries

Overall Rating:Overall Ranking - ExcellentQuality:Education Quality Rating - OustandingSafety:Capmus Safety Rating - Very GoodCosts:Tuition & Fees Cost Rating - Good

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Average
Faculty Salary
$115,000
Fair
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.

In this report for Mercy College we provide you with information about faculty structure, salaries, and class sizes, as well as comparisons to competing and nearby colleges.

Faculty Compensation and Workload

Full-time
Faculty
225
As a rule, adequately compensated instructors are better motivated and have more opportunities to concentrate on teaching; therefore, we consider faculty compensation to be an important factor for evaluating education quality.

Faculty monthly salaries at Mercy College vary approximately from $7,000 to $12,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $115,000 a year, which is 18% lower than New York average faculty compensation.

Women faculty members at the college are paid $9,621 a month on average; that is almost equal to average men faculty salaries - $9,502 a month.

Faculty Rank
School Average
NY Average
Difference

Professor
$135,168
$193,453
-30%

Associate professor
$117,012
$133,142
-12%

Assistant professor
$111,708
$110,554
+1%

Instructor
$92,136
$82,895
+11%

Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

Mercy College Faculty Compensation and Workload Chart
Students to
Faculty Ratio
15 : 1
Low
Mercy College has a pretty decent, 15:1 students-to-faculty ratio.

Low ratios typically imply smaller class size, more attention to students, better quality of education, and higher satisfaction both for students and instructors. High ratios are usually a sign of the opposite.

Use the charts above to compare faculty compensation and workload at Mercy College versus nearby colleges.

Faculty Ranking and Demographics

The full-time faculty at Mercy College consists of 29 professors, 68 associate professors, 112 assistant professors, and 16 instructors - 80 men and 145 women:
Mercy College Faculty Demographics Chart

Please note that faculty rank (e.g. associate professor, lecturer, instructor) is usually assigned by the college itself.

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